The Darwin Awards II
a new volume commemorating those individuals who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it in a sublimely idiotic fashion

Perhaps the words on the cover of Wendy Northcutt's "The Darwin Awards II" best sum it up: "A new volume commemorating individuals who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it in a sublimely idiotic fashion." (For those who want a better explanation of what the Darwin Awards are, see my......more

Wow, failure to complete a book for a long extended period of time. How long was it? August to February, yikes. i will have that story with a few books that I have left behind. Anyway, generally this book was a wonderful continuation of the series that causes so much amusement in the facts and fiction......more

The second volume in Ms. Northcutt's Darwin Awards Series, I found this book to be better in some ways than the first one - there seemed to be less 'unconfirmed' Darwin Awards (thus more stories that had basis in truth), and less 'urban legends' - which was my main complaint with the first book. How......more

Meh. Might be ok if you read a few pages and set it down again over and over. As a book it just doesn't hang together despite the ample amounts of filler. The topic is the perfect source of interesting blog posts or online reading, but doesn't work in this format. Maybe teh first one was better, but......more